The Book of Enoch, written during the second century B.C.E.,
is one of the most important non-canonical apocryphal works,
and probably had a huge influence on early Christian, particularly
Gnostic, beliefs.
Filled with hallucinatory visions of heaven and hell, angels and devils,
Enoch introduced concepts such as fallen angels, the appearance of a Messiah,
Resurrection, a Final Judgement, and a Heavenly Kingdom on Earth.
Interspersed with this material are quasi-scientific digressions
on calendrical systems, geography, cosmology, astronomy, and meteorology.
This etext has been prepared specially for sacred-texts, and
is a great improvement over other versions on the Internet,
with the introduction, correct verse numbering,
page numbers from the 1917 edition, and intact critical apparatus.